Capital One · 2 hours ago
Director, Machine Learning Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$294K/yr - $335K/yr
10+ years expCapital One is a financial services company seeking a Director, Machine Learning Engineer to provide technical leadership to Agile teams focused on productionizing machine learning applications. The role involves guiding architectural design decisions, developing machine learning applications, and mentoring other engineers to ensure high performance and availability of these systems.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Deliver Machine learning models and software components that solve challenging business problems in the financial services industry, working in collaboration with the Product, Architecture, Engineering, and Data Science teams
Drive the creation and evolution of Machine learning models and software that enable state-of-the-art intelligent systems
Lead large-scale Machine learning initiatives with the customer in mind
Leverage cloud-based architectures and technologies to deliver optimized Machine learning models at scale
Optimize data pipelines to feed Machine learning models
Use programming languages like Python, Scala, or Java
Evangelize best practices in all aspects of the engineering and modeling lifecycles
Recruit, nurture, and retain top engineering talent
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree
At least 10 years of experience designing and building data-intensive solutions using distributed computing
At least 6 years of experience programming with Python, Scala, or Java
At least 5 years of people management experience
At least 3 years of experience with the full Machine learning development lifecycle using modern technology in a business critical setting
Preferred
Master's or doctoral degree in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, or a similar field
3+ years of experience building production-ready data pipelines that feed Machine learning models
8+ years of experience within a large data-intensive multi-line business environment
5+ years of experience leading software engineering teams
Expertise designing, implementing, and scaling complex production-ready data pipelines for Machine learning models
Experience partnering with technology peers responsible for data architecture and distributed computing infrastructure or platforms
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to a variety of audiences
Highly developed interpersonal, presentation, and communications skills
Machine learning industry impact through conference presentations, papers, blog posts, open source contributions, or patents
Ability to attract and develop high-performing software engineers with an inspiring leadership style
Benefits
Performance based incentive compensation
Cash bonus(es)
Long term incentives (LTI)
Comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits
Company
Capital One
Capital One is a financial services company that provides banking, credit card, auto loan, savings, and commercial banking services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.45BKey Investors
Berkshire Hathaway
2025-09-11Post Ipo Debt· $2.75B
2025-01-30Post Ipo Debt· $1.75B
2023-05-15Post Ipo Equity· $954M
Leadership Team
Daniel Arellano
Senior Vice President, Business Cards and Payments
Justin Burch
Senior Vice President
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